Friday, April 24, 2015

Letter to SLI from American Institute of Research

Thank you for sharing
your most recent report using the 2010 Illinois test score data on the eight
Chicago public schools in which Strategic Learning Initiatives has been
working.

This latest report builds
on the data that served as the basis for our report “Validating the Impact of
Strategic Learning Initiatives’ Focused Instruction Process (FIP Model)” (Steven
Leinwand and Sarah Edwards, American Institutes for Research, July, 2009).

In the 2009 report, we
concluded that “the results that SLI has achieved, and that AIR has validated,
are very impressive and suggest that well before decisions are made to
reconstitute schools under the mandates of NCLB, school districts would be wise
to consider far less drastic, but clearly powerful, interventions such as the
Focused Instruction Process.”

The updated 2010 ISAT data
that you have provided show that the schools supported by Strategic Learning
continue to close achievement gaps and accelerate student learning.SLI continues to make a real difference in the
lives of students and it is clear that its successes can, and should be, broadly
adopted elsewhere.

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About SLI

The Mission of Strategic Learning Initiatives is to work with schools to dramatically improve classroom practice and district results.

The key to our success in our hometown, Chicago, is that we use the power of research as the guide to improving results in the classroom. Chicago is home to the best long-term research in the nation revealing what works—and what doesn’t—in education. We bring the best of that research and the best research from the world of business that tells us about total quality improvement to each of the schools where we work.

We know the qualities that must be present in a school in order for it to succeed. We work with our schools, principals, teachers and parents to ensure those qualities are present.

In schools where Strategic Learning Initiatives is at work, teachers teach, re-teach, and teach again until every student achieves mastery and the entire school moves forward.

Contact us for more information: 312-738-0022 ext. 1111 Educational Program Asst.